Migration is: ‘The geographical displacement of individuals or groups, generally for economic or social reasons.’ But there is no word for forced migration in the dictionary. Virginia Moreno Molina That is because enforced migration is not what happens when an immigrant chooses to travel and decides to make […]
Migrants
Mental health & immigrants: surviving in a new country
Relocating means more than just living in another country. It is about coping with a change where you lose almost everything you own and encounter a new culture that you don’t know, and that doesn’t know you. Sanity and insanity waver dangerously. Taylor Zambrano A Colombian woman flees […]
Refugees and borders
This text is written when domestic and international pressure seems to be weakening the UK conservative government’s hard position towards refugees as in recent hours information has emerged about an announcement that Cameron might give soon. Mabel Encinas Up to recently, the only humanitarian ‘urgency’ for the conservative […]
Immigrants who do not seek paradise but flee from hell
Marina is so named because she was born at sea, in an Italian patrol boat surrounded by more than 600 people trying to reach Europe; her mother was one of those migrants. Luisa María González The ship Bettica rescued 654 travellers from the Mediterranean Sea in sailing in […]
Migrants: Thinking from the Otherhood
Othering people and being othered are common place nowadays. While dominant groups create the idea that ‘others’ exist, the concept of ‘otherhood’ is born on the other side of the coin and has important political connotations. Mabel Encinas You may have experienced being ‘othered’. When you feel […]